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Greenhouse

What I'm working on.

Here you'll find my current creative works in progress.

(Like Gwen, I was diagnosed with OCD at a young age.)

The Truth in Your Lies

Genre: Speculative thriller

Audience: Young adult
Stage: Complete at 86,000 words

“You’re not safe here.” When Gwen reads those words left in a note on her pillow the first night at Aldridge Manor, she wants to believe it’s a lie. However, determining what’s true from what’s an intrusive thought is difficult with obsessive compulsive disorder, and learning to combat her compulsions is the reason why Gwen agreed to participate in the alternative rehab program in the first place. But there’s a secret simmering beneath the Manor’s shiny floors and winding halls, one that connects the other four teen patients to Gwen’s past in a way that their doctors are determined to keep hidden. As additional cryptic messages slip through the doctors’ tightening grasp, Gwen bands together with the other patients to seek the truth hidden in the doctors’ deception. Yet, not every truth leads to healing, and the reality they uncover puts the course of both their mental health journeys and their lives at stake. 

Comparison titles: A mix of personal narratives from John Green's Aza Holmes in TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN and Eleven in Netflix's Stranger Things

The Sweet Taste of Bitterness

Genre: Historical light-fantasy

Audience: Middle grade
Stage: Completed first draft

After her older brothers joined the armed forces during WWII, Amelia is left on their family pumpkin farm with her Pa's growing bitterness and her Granny's insipid cooking. When a revenge plan gone wrong unlocks an ancient power deep within their fields manifesting as a pumpkin named Ravish, Amelia strikes a deal. She'll feed the growing gourd whatever it desires or risk the destruction of her Pa's pumpkin crop. However, as Ravish's appetite reaches insatiable heights, Amelia must either tell the truth about her scheme or sacrifice more than her fill.

Comparison titles: Little Shop of Horrors meets THE WAR THAT SAVED MY LIFE by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Untitled Romance

Genre: Romance

Audience: New adult/upper YA
Stage: Currently drafting

A novel written in dual perspectives.
Rory is ready to lose it all. Vince is desperate to gain it all back. When the two are forced together on a cross-country roadtrip, the lines between need and desire blur before either can admit that there's no going back.

Comparison titles: Disney Channel's My Date with the President's Daughter meets THE EDGE OF NEVER by J.A. Redmerski

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